HI Belle, Thanks for filling in some of the lines.  Interesting that you have a Currier in your line. My great Aunt married a Currier and my great great grandfather Octave Anair married an Ellen aka Helen Carrier/Currier/Carignan. That was in Salem, VT and Greensboro, VT which are quite near to Barton, VT and the Canadian border near Stanstead and Thetford Mines Quebec. Let me know if there is anything in NH you want to know as I can go to NH Vital Records and look at several records in marriage, birth and death. I find ancestry hunters and Quebec research two of the best sites to make queries on French Family heritage. My granddaughter's other grandmother lives in Memphis, Tenn and loves it.  My sister hated it and moved back to Vermont.  I still think Vermont is one of the prettiest states in the fall and spring. Thanks for sharing the lienage of your family which married with the Shatney/Chateuneuf line. Harriet in Deerfield, NH ________________________________ From: Belle Baccheschi <motherbelle@yahoo.com> To: lbhairo@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:43:15 AM Subject: Re: [lbhairo] Shatney??? Morning Harriet,   The Shatneys are not in my direct line, so I haven't done any focused research there. Just every so often, somebody named Shatney married a Laclair.  My line goes: 1] Charles Laclair & Marie Rose Clement,  2] Zoya Laclair & Freeman Degreenia [aka John Robinson], 3] Margaret Mae Degreenia & David Currier, 4]Carl Currier & Ruby Braman.   Carl Currier was my maternal grandfather. He moved to CT in the 1930's where he met and married my grandmother. My mother was b. there, but at some point in the 40's they moved back north to New Hampshire for a few years. They returned to CT just after my mother graduated high school. So, I was born and lived most of my life there. Then,last summer, my husband and I moved to Greeneville, TN. I love it here, but it is putting a cramp in my research. Thanks be for the internet.  Other names associated with my grandfather' s ancestry are Facteau/Fecteau and Tuck. My Great-aunt Florence Currier m. a Harakaly and the Aunt Etta Degreenia I wrote of was a Marcou by birth.   Am I safe in assuming that Mitchell Shatney could be Michel Chateauneaf? If I come across any similar names I will definitely let you know. Blessings!  -belle [who is writing from off of Lois's website] From: Harriet Cady <kd4318@yahoo.com> Subject: [lbhairo] Shatney??? To: lbhairo@yahoogroups .com Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 7:48 AM Have you done any genealogy of the Shatney lineage.  I have been hunting and hunting for Mitchell Shatney's birth record and maybe one of his sister's or brothers or cousins were born same area and baptized. I appreciate your answering my email. When I was in elementary school one of my best friend was Betty Coldbeth whose father was something like Rathborn. I am now in Deerfield, NH where are you? Harret E. Cady ____________ _________ _________ __ From: motherbelle <motherbelle@ yahoo.com> To: lbhairo@yahoogroups .com Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 7:02:39 AM Subject: [lbhairo] Re: Any Degreenia know Shatney??? Morning Harriet, Two Shatney women,Rosetta and Sophia, married Zoya Laclair's older brothers, Charles and Frank. And her younger sister Mathilde married Lewis Shatney. That made them all in-laws to Freeman Degreenia. I haven't found anything closer than that. Certainly they all knew each other. Mathilde's daughter Victoria Shatney married Sidney Daniel Coolbeth/Colbath in 1869. I recall my grandfather having friends named Coolbeth in CT in the 1960's. I don't know if they were kin, but he had known them since his boyhood in Glover. --- In lbhairo@yahoogroups .com, Harriet Cady <kd1843@...> wrote: > > HI, > My husband's ancestor is Mitchell Shatney a descendant of CHATEUNEUF, John Baptiste. > Anything Sound familiar. > Harriet Cady > > > > > ____________ _________ _________ __ > From: Donna Degreenia <degreenia@. ..> > To: lbhairo@yahoogroups .com > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:59:32 PM > Subject: Re: [lbhairo] Zoya M. Leclair's Great Grand Son > > > Hi, > I am Hattie Mae Blay Badger's Great Grand Daughter, Erdine Gibney Hall was my Grandmother.  Just out out of curiousity who was your mother?  I can possible also help with any Degreenia questions.    >   > Donna Degreenia > --- On Fri, 1/30/09, pdxbennett <pdxbennett@ yahoo. com> wrote: > > From: pdxbennett <pdxbennett@ yahoo. com> > Subject: [lbhairo] Zoya M. Leclair's Great Grand Son > To: lbhairo@yahoogroups .com > Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 2:21 AM > > That would be me. I have recently became interested in who came > before me. I am stunned at what I can find on the web. > > I adored my Grandmother Hattie M. Blay. Stupid ignorant me never > directly asked a thing about the past. Not a single question answered > because not one question was asked. When I was born my mother lived > at home. Therefore my grandmother treated me as her youngest child > instead of one of her younger grandchildren. I spent many many hours > with her, > > A few stray memories as well as a few objects have stuck with me. I > have her Grampa "Degreney's" eye glasses and ring. The glasses are > small and the part that goes over the ears are so short they won't fit > my face. He must have had a smaller head however his ring she said > was carved out of a deer antler is so big that I could get it on my > big toe.....not that I have ever tried. I deny all! I remember her > pride in showing this to me. She obviously adored her grandfather as > much as I adored her. > > I have a small box made out of a piece of firewood. It is a kind of a > chest. The cover is rounded with the bark of the tree still attached. > She told that it was her mothers (Zoya Alamedia) and she kept > handkerchiefs init. All I know is that it was kept for most of my > childhood under the claw foot tub in the bathroom containing old > skeleton keys and a receipt from the 20's for groceries. Bread was 20 > cents. The tub was huge as the box fit under it. Grandson's tend to > crawl everywhere! I love boxes as boxes contain can contain secrets. > It was my first grab and run acquisition. > > It was sheer five finger happenstance that I ended up with these > items. No one else knew what they were or cared. I was being very > helpful by hauling the unwanted stuff to the trash bin at the time of > the great clear out. There was two trash bins. One was in the trunk > of my old bomb of a car. I should have kept it all but at 17 I was > lucky to have taken what I did. > > What I really wish I had was the picture of what she called her > "special" uncle. I don't remember if I was told which side of her > family. I am thinking Degreenia as the Blay side does not seem to > have left much of an imprint anywhere. Anyway it was a deguerrotype > of a civil war era dandy. I have a vague memory of a slicked back > hair style with the hat held at the chest. It took me twenty years to > realize what she meant by "special". > > I am also interested in this bit about Zoya Laclaire possibly being > Native American. Cree is what I read. That took me by surprise. I > look at my face. I see my mother, her sisters and my grandmother. We > all have a strong resemblance to my great grandmother Zoya Almedia. I > don't see indian part. I am thinking about the DNA testing thing to > see if it could be proved. > > Has this been tried anywhere?